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2000 up for United: Saturday’s key Premier League statistics

Anthony Martial’s importance to Manchester United is underlined, while Alexis Sanchez proves why he is so integral to Arsenal. Opta pick out the best stats from Saturday’s action.

Arsenal 2-0 Hull City

Alexis Sanchez has been involved in 16 goals in his last 13 Premier League games for Arsenal (11 goals, 5 assists).

Sanchez has scored in each of his four Premier League appearances against Hull (7 goals in total – more than against any other side).

No player has scored more Premier League goals against Hull than Sanchez (7, level with Wayne Rooney).

In all competitions, Sanchez has bagged eight goals in six games against the Tigers, also his biggest tally against any side.

The Gunners have scored in each of their last 16 top-flight games, the longest scoring streak by any side in the division this season.

Hull have now gone 12 Premier League away games without a win, the joint-longest current such run in the top-flight this season (level with Leicester City).

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has played the full 90 minutes in just two of his last 42 Premier League appearances, and in just 12 of his 121 in total.

Sanchez is the first player to score 2+ goals in three consecutive Premier League appearances vs the same team since Thierry Henry vs Charlton in 2002.

Two of Hull’s three red cards this season in the top-flight have come against Arsenal (also Jake Livermore in the reverse fixture).

Arsenal have won six penalties in the Premier League this season so far, three times as many as they were awarded in the whole of 2015/16 (2).

Manchester United 2-0 Watford

Manchester United are the first team win 2000 points in the Premier League.

Mourinho’s men are unbeaten in 16 Premier League games (W9 D7); their longest unbeaten run in the top-flight since March 2013 (18 games unbeaten).

In fact, the Red Devils are on the longest current unbeaten run in the big five European Leagues (16 games).

Watford have lost on each of their four Premier League visits to Old Trafford, the most they’ve lost at an away venue in the competition.

Indeed, the Hornets have conceded more goals away at Manchester United than any against other side (11).

Anthony Martial has been involved in more Premier League goals for Man Utd than any other player since his debut (22 – 14 goals, 8 assists).

Juan Mata has scored in successive Premier League games for Man Utd for the first time since September 2015.

Since making his debut in August 2011, Juan Mata has been involved in 87 Premier League goals (45 goals, 42 assists), more than any other midfielder.

Middlesbrough 0-0 Everton

Ronald Koeman is unbeaten in eight Premier League games for the first time at a single club (was unbeaten in 11 in September 2016 with a combination of Southampton and Everton).

Middlesbrough have managed to score just 11 goals at home in the top-flight this season, a league-low haul.

Middlesbrough are without a victory in their last eight Premier League games (D4 L4), their longest winless run in the competition since February 2009 under Gareth Southgate (14 games).

Aitor Karanka’s side have failed to find the back of the net in 11 Premier League games this season; only Hull have misfired in more (12).

Only three sides have conceded fewer goals in the Premier League this season than Middlesbrough and Everton (27 each); Man Utd, Chelsea and Tottenham.

The Toffees have kept clean sheets in four of their last five Premier League visits to the Riverside Stadium, winning three and drawing one those games (L1).

Stoke City 1-0 Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace have failed to score in the first-half in 19 Premier League games this season, a joint-high figure along with Sunderland.

Joe Allen has netted six PL goals this season, his best-ever haul in a top-flight campaign (next highest is 4 in 11/12).

Allen has now scored two Premier League goals against the Eagles; against no other side has he scored more (also 2 v Sunderland and Wolves).

Stoke are unbeaten in seven Premier League games on home soil (W3 D4), their longest such run since January 2014 (also 7).

Crystal Palace have won just one of their last 11 top-flight games, drawing two and losing eight.

Sam Allardyce has enjoyed only one win on his eight Premier League visits to the Bet365 Stadium as a manager (D2 L5).

The Potters have scored exactly one goal in each of their last six Premier League clashes with Crystal Palace, winning only this game in that period (D1 L4).

Sunderland 0-4 Southampton

Manolo Gabbiadini became the 16th player to score three goals in his first two Premier League appearances, and the first since Zlatan Ibrahimovic in August.

The Italian was also just the second Southampton player to score in his first two Premier League games for the club, after Henri Camara in February 2005.

Sunderland failed to score a first-half goal for the 19th time in the Premier League this season, a joint league-high with Crystal Palace.

Only Swansea (28) have conceded more home goals in the Premier League this season than Sunderland (24).

All three of Saints’ away Premier League victories this season have seen them score at least three goals (3-0 vs West Ham, 3-1 vs Bournemouth).

The last two occasions Southampton have scored four goals in a Premier League match away from home, the other side has been relegated at the end of the campaign (Wolves in 2003-04 and Aston Villa in 2015-16).

Indeed, this was the first time Saints had scored four goals in a league match under Claude Puel.

Shane Long has scored in each of his last three away games in all competitions for Southampton.

West Ham United 2-2 West Bromwich Albion

The Baggies have opened the scoring in the 6th minute in each of their last three Premier League games (W1 D2).

Both Sofiane Feghouli and Manuel Lanzini scored their second goals in their last three Premier League games at the London Stadium – only Michail Antonio (3) has scored more league goals at the ground for the Hammers.

Lanzini has scored two goals and provided two assists in his last five Premier League games for West Ham.

Nacer Chadli has been involved in five of West Brom’s six Premier League goals against West Ham this season (3 goals, 2 assists).

Indeed, he’s scored more Premier League goals against West Ham than he has against any other side (3).

Only Bournemouth (6) have conceded more goals in the 90th minute of Premier League games than West Ham this season (4).

West Brom have scored six goals against West Ham in the Premier League this season. Only against Wolves in 2011-12 (7) have they scored more against an opponent in a single season.

Liverpool 2-0 Tottenham

Liverpool have won more Premier League games at Anfield against Tottenham than any other current top-flight side they have faced (16 wins).

The Reds are unbeaten in their last nine Premier League encounters with Spurs (W6 D3), they last went on a longer run in September 1976 (10 league games unbeaten).

Tottenham have won just once in 17 visits to the other current top six clubs (D6 L10), failing to win each of the last seven (D4 L3).

Tottenham have conceded eight goals from open play in their last 13 league games after conceding just one in their opening 12 Premier League games of the season.

Spurs conceded eight shots on target; the most in a first half for Tottenham since Opta started collecting shot data in 2003-04.

Spurs have failed to score in successive Premier League away games for the first time since April 2015.

Sadio Mane has been directly involved in more Premier League goals than any other Liverpool player this season (15 – 11 goals, four assists).

There were just 138 seconds between both of Sadio Mane’s goals for Liverpool.

Toby Alderweireld received his first Premier League yellow card since March 2016, after a run of 26 games without.